Head of Household audit letters in the mail.

• Position: FTB - Franchise Tax Board - Brief article

The FTB announced the mailing of more than 90,000 audit letters to taxpayers to verify their Head of Household filing status on their 2013 state tax return. Each year FTB reviews tax returns of taxpayers who claim the HOH filing status because the qualifications are commonly misunderstood. Taxpayers who do not qualify will have their tax reassessed at either the single or married-filing-separate filing status. The FTB assessed $34 million in additional tax to the nearly 36,000 taxpayers who used this...